April 5, 2016, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Lutz Lotta from Lucas Film talked about the ILMX lab where work progresses in their VR developments. The creators of Oscar-wining media and technologies are finding that VR is very challenging. For most media, the key aspect is the story, which requires artists and technologists to work…
October 2015 – At the Virtualize conference, organized by graphics analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, the discussion focused on the shift in requirements and architecture of the new generation of virtualized networks. Typically, VMs are used in an enterprise for standard office and transactional processing applications. The newest generation of GPUs and GPU based appliances…
October 2015 – Continuing their push into the combined CPU/GPU designs, AMD released the R Series SOC for embedded applications. The new chip, called the “merlin falcon”, is smaller than previous designs in this family by over 30%. The reduction in area and package size comes from the use of the Excavator architecture for the…
October 2015 – At the Linley Processor Conference, the HAS released an update on the progress of the consortiums efforts. The consortium is making progress since their 1.0 specification release earlier this year. The CPU & GPU computing paradigm supports a memory coherency model and a memory partitioning by tasks. For realization of the specification,…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Hong Jiang from Intel talked about the improvements in the GPU functions that will enable a better user experience for 4k TV. The changes to the graphics engines and functionality are also important for the newest graphics APIs that have fine-grained and direct GPU access and control. The…
March 19, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Dennis Adams from Sony Creative Software advocates the move to OpenCL for video editing tools. OpenCL is an open standard API for cross-vendor, cross platform work focused on mostly highly parallel processing. Sony sells many video edit tools like Vegas Pro and others. They added capabilities for…
March 19, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Thad Beier from Dolby talked about the coming changes in the video landscape to move towards higher dynamic range for the displays. The advent of 4k or ultra-high definition TV sets requires more than just increasing the number pixels, but needs more dynamic range and color gamut….
March 3, 2015, The Khronos Group released preliminary information on their latest graphics API called Vulkan. This new open standard API is targeted for those graphics developers who need direct access and control of GPU functions. The preliminary specifications later this year and will be available for comment at www.khronos.org/vulkan/vulkan_feedback_forum The new API is completely…
October 1, 2014, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Mukund Srinivasan from Ittiam described the requirements and results of accelerating the newest codecs on GPUs. The needs for higher compression ratios for video is facing the challenges of compute workloads and CPU capacity. The market is seeing much more video on all devices, but particularly on mobile…